Mia Butikofer
Mr. Johansen
ENG 101
1 February 2023
Julie Petersen’s “Analysis Essay: Is Macbeth a Tragic Hero?”
Intentions
Promoting business is an everyday occurrence. Plagerising to promote business, sadly, is also not uncommon. Julie Petersen’s “Analysis Essay: Is Macbeth a Tragic Hero?” is a prime example of plagerising to do exactly that. Although Peterson uses credible sources and facts throughout her essay, it is not a dependable source. For a proclaimed Stanford English graduate, the author makes far too many grammatical errors, the author misdescribes Shakspeare’s Macbeth play, and the website has questionable purposes relating to the promotion of a writing service business.
Peterson claims to be a graduate of Stanford University
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Julie Petersen is not a graduate of Stanford and did not write the “Analysis Essay: Is Macbeth a Tragic Hero?” essay with a bachelor's degree in arts because she makes far too many grammatical errors throughout her analysis. In the article titled “Common Writing Mistakes: 5 Top Common Writing Mistakes of English Learners,” the author teaches us that one of the most important key rules to using indefinite articles is, “Indefinite articles are used (a, an) the first time something is presented in a sentence” (Beare). Then proceeds to give examples of correct and incorrect usage of this rule. Incorrect, “I'd like to go to the good restaurant.” Correct, “I’d like to go to a good restaurant” (Beare). This rule immediately stuck out to me because when I was going through Petersens’s analysis essay I noticed this certain phrase, “I have decided to conduct Macbeth analysis” (Petersen “Analysis”). When I typed this sentence into an online typing assistant …show more content…
Or is he saying, ‘It would have been better if she had died later’? The second line, ‘There would have been time for such a word’ (i.e. the word ‘dead’), inclines us towards the latter: Macbeth appears to be saying that it would have been preferable for Lady Macbeth to die peacefully after all of the conflict and battle. There would have been time to say their goodbyes and for him to mourn properly. Not so in the heat of battle (which Macbeth is when he hears the news).